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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (2266)	9/20/1999 12:22:00 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

No operator interest, no sales, no market. That's right. Not yet. It will take a "need for speed" and/or coverage to bring it about.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (2266)	11/6/1999 8:03:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 34857

<I'd like to see CDMA overlay anywhere. The British tests were conducted a year ago. No operator interest, no sales, no market.> I'm catching up on weeks of stuff, but just to correct a small mistake, the Newbury trials were two years ago, not one. Time flies! I'm unaware of any interest in GSM overlays using cdmaOne. Everyone seems primed for overlays of GSM, or new spectrum based W-CDMA networks to replace GSM/PHS sometime in 2001 [if we believe NTT wishful thinking] or more likely 2004. Meanwhile, HDR is about to come roaring out of the factories with cdma2000 not far behind - Ericsson will be an enthusiastic convert [as most converts usually are]. As pressure for internet access grows, there will be a swarming of service providers to 3G [or HDR] so that they are not left behind. Watch ATT start sweating with their TDMA network. Nextel too. How about OneTel in Australia, still completing their brand new GSM network just in time for obsolescence. Somebody there will be sacked when cdmaOne/HDR/cdma2000/Globalstar runs rings around them. Also, Japan, with 120m of the richest people on the planet who love travel and have several major and very busy international airports are small in the overall air travel market, but still important if you are trying to sell Japanese a cellphone or ensure roaming for people from other places. GSM is a losing proposition. China is negligible as a roaming destination [not counting Hong Kong], so although they will have huge GSM numbers before the 3G overlays arrive or cdmaOne finally recovers from being WTO blocked and embassy bombed. I didn't see your reindeer antler hat at Telecom99. Maurice